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Software Development Engineer, AWS Security
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Job summary
Come and build innovative services that protect our cloud from security threats.
As an AWS Security Software Development Engineer (SDE), youll help to build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cyber threats across Amazons infrastructure. Youll work with data scientists, security engineers, and other software development engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions at massive scale. Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers and preserves our customers trust in us. Youll get to use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect every single AWS customer, both internally and externally, from security threats not many teams can say that!
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. The team has a mix of experience levels, and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers, data scientists, and managers truly enjoy mentoring junior engineers and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews.
We care about your career growth. We assign projects and tasks based on what will help team members develop into a more well-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Inclusive and Diverse Culture
Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Yes, we do get to build a cool service, but we also believe a big reason for that is the inclusive and welcoming culture we cultivate every day.
Were looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers. We want someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture weve been building.
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we arent focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, were happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced lifeboth in and outside of work. We are passionate about the capabilities we build, and we are responsible for our on-call rotation to ensure our services bring value to our customers. We understand that life is challenging and we have a flexible work environment that enables individuals to adjust their work schedule to accommodate personal needs.
Key job responsibilities
Our engineers solve complex architectural problems with simple solutions, where cant be done isnt considered an answer, and scalability, reliability and availability are a must. You will work on a highly collaborative team that is willing to take calculated risks to deliver quickly without sacrificing maintainability. You will join a team that values strong intuition, but seek metrics and other data sources to back up their assumptions. You will stretch yourself and grow. You will share your knowledge with others and help others achieve. Our team's environment is one where you own everything end to end: design, development, testing, deploying through rapid iteration. You'll work with team leaders who unburden our engineers of wasted time and red tape, empower them to make trade offs without amassing unjustifiable tech debt, and insist on automating away operational inefficiencies.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, system design, and scaling of new and existing solutions in a distributed, virtualized, or cloud environment
- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through to actual launch of the project
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- BS or MS in a STEM related field
- Experience with Linux, security, network protocols, and security tools (e.g. intrusion detection, log analysis, and network scanning)
- Experience with building solutions that detect and remediate security threats
- Able to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate level) exam
- Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
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Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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